• Elon Reportedly Pulled Out of OpenAI Because They Wouldn’t Let Him Be the Big Boss

    Elon Reportedly Pulled Out of OpenAI Because They Wouldn’t Let Him Be the Big Boss
    Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk once played the Mr. Money Bags role to Silicon Valley’s newest darling OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT and DALLE-2. The nonprofit has become the center of the tech world’s new obsession with AI, but a new report claims that back in 2018 Musk proposed he take over the nonprofit research…Read more...
  • Khan Academy Head Wants AI to Assist Kids Rather Than Do the Work for Them

    Khan Academy Head Wants AI to Assist Kids Rather Than Do the Work for Them
    Sal Khan, the founder of the nonprofit education organization Khan Academy, said that in the early days of popular language model GPT-4’s development, the system was spitting out inaccurate math. Khan and his team had an early look at the next-gen AI system as it was being developed and were trying to find…Read more...
  • Video Friday: Lunar Base

    Video Friday: Lunar Base
    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
    Robotics Summit & Expo: 10–11 May 2023, BOSTONICRA 2023: 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDONRoboCup 2023: 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCERSS 2023: 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, SOUTH KOREAIEEE RO-MAN 2023: 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, SOU
  • Can an AI program really write a good movie? Here’s a test

    Can an AI program really write a good movie? Here’s a test
    The increasing sophistication of programs like ChatGPT has led to unease over the future of film-making. What happened when we gave it a chance?The rise of AI programs like ChatGPT has triggered a tidal wave of ethical handwringing, most prominently from within the industries that it threatens to destroy. After all, just because you can get a robot to instantly write code or write contracts or provide customer support for free, should you?Well, the answer from the Writers Guild of America is a q
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  • Voice Deepfakes Are Calling. Here's How to Avoid Them.

    Voice Deepfakes Are Calling. Here's How to Avoid Them.
    You have just returned home after a long day at work and are about to sit down for dinner when suddenly your phone starts buzzing. On the other end is a loved one, perhaps a parent, a child or a childhood friend, begging you to send them money immediately.
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